With the end of summer rapidly approaching, now is the perfect time to update your collection of fonts! Okay, so here at WebdesignerDepot, every day is the perfect day to update our font collections, but with fall heralding the return to school or work for many of our readers, there's an extra push to stock up on new and interesting fonts to impress those colleagues, professors (or students!) with your typography prowess. For your consideration,...

The Adobe Originals program launched in 1989 with its first type designs: Adobe Garamond, an historic revival with an emphasis on contemporary typography; and Utopia, an original type design. The launch of the program sent a very clear message to the communities of both design and type professionals that Adobe was getting serious about typography. Since the launch of Adobe Garamond and Utopia, the Originals program has produced some...

Every designer knows that free fonts are a godsend when working on a project, but truly valuable free fonts can be tough to find. With this list we’ve endeavoured to bring you as many full font families as possible; fonts that are genuinely free (not just one style or weight free), a balance of fonts that work well for body text as well as display, and a full collection of fonts that are pleasing to the eye. Everyone can find something new and useful...

Everyone loves saving money, especially the US government. But could it really be as simple as switching fonts? Last week the media was awash with the story of 14-year-old student Suvir Mirchandani, who claimed that if the United States Government switched from using Times New Roman to Garamond on printed documents, it could save as much as $400 million. The Pennsylvania student first began considering this idea while watching his school...

Typographicposters.com is a hidden gem of a site, that displays the artwork of a host of talented graphic designers in poster format. The work on display is not chosen haphazardly but rather held to a very rigid set of design standards, according to site founder André Felipe. Each piece chosen is reviewed individually and must meet a certain level of design quality. “Rather than promoting design work in a "what's new" blog format, we form...

When it comes to lettering, there’s something about a handmade project that just stops us in our tracks. In this day and age, with so many beautiful fonts accessible to us at just the press of a button, the fact that there are still amazing designers willing to go above and beyond the norm and hand-letter their work impresses us to no end. This dozen projects are no different; each of them made us stop and say, “Wow.” We hope you’ll feel the...

Although the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are still years away, the official typeface for the event has already been designed and unveiled. Rio 2016 is a fluid and graceful script, inspired by the movements of past Olympians, which brings to life the ideas of “Passion and Transformation” that are so vital to the Olympic ideals. With Rio 2016, the Brazilian office of Dalton Maag designed a typeface that is entirely unique to the Olympics...

Though the Mozilla Foundation has been around for ten years now, they have only recently released their own font, Fira Sans, which is available as a free download from their site. Fira Sans is available in four weights, including an italic variant for each weight, as well as a monospaced variant in two weights (regular and bold). The typeface itself was designed by notable type aficionados Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois, and according...

We all love exciting new typefaces, and 2013 has been a bumper year for type design. So, with 2013 coming to a close, we’ve put together this list of the best fonts in the last 12 months. For each month we’ve debated long and hard, and eventually nominated a 1st place, 2nd place, and runner up. What do they win? Nothing but our admiration, and kudos for a job well done. The eagle eyed amongst you will notice there are no winners for December. With...

Dutch design studio Today Designers has printed a book using a very special kind of ink—squid ink. The book, entitled Naar Inkt Vissen (which translates to “Fishing For Ink” in English), contains 48 pages full of sailor stories written by Menno Smit and Edwin de Voigt. In order to add even more nautical flair, the 700 screen printed copies of the book were bound with fishing wire using a Japanese stab-binding technique. This is not the...

An absolute must-have for any typography buff, these wood type alphabets, available as a Flickr photoset from Patricia M, make up one of the most visually stunning collections of wood type currently available. Each of these 84 unique alphabets has been scanned in by hand and is available as a high-resolution image under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Whether you choose to download and adapt them to your specific needs, or simply...

Love it or hate it, it’s getting difficult to deny generative typography’s steadily increasing importance in the world of graphic design, and according to a new short film, On Generative Typography, that influence will only continue to grow. New York brand and experience design firm Collins produced the film to promote the Type Directors Club’s open call for entries to their annual competitions. On Generative Typography runs just...